Upcoming Symposium: The Law of Parents and Parenting

Upcoming Symposium: The Law of Parents and Parenting, Fordham Law Review, Friday, November 5, 2021 at
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. online via Zoom. Register here.

This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together scholars, practitioners, and advocates from across the country to discuss fundamental questions about how the law defines and treats parents, and how economic security, race, and class are central to considering these questions.

Keynote Speaker
Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center

Panelists
Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law School
Meghan Boone, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University Law School
Eleanor Brown, Professor of Law, Penn State Law School
Naomi Cahn, Professor of Law, UVA Law School 
June Carbone, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Anne Dailey, Professor of Law, UConn Law School
Maxine Eichner, Professor of Law, UNC Law School
Michele Goodwin, Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law School
Clare Huntington, Professor of Law, Fordham Law
Jason Jackson, Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Courtney Joslin, Professor of Law, UC Davis Law School
Elizabeth Kukura, Professor of Law, Drexel Law School
Robin Lenhardt, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School
Solangel Maldonado, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
Melissa Murray, Professor of Law, NYU Law School
Doug NeJaime, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Priscilla Ocen, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Laura Rosenbury, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Elizabeth Scott, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Lauren Shapiro, Managing Director, Brooklyn Defender Services, Family Defense Practice
Charisa Kiyô Smith, Professor of Law, CUNY Law School
Gregg Strauss, Professor of Law, UVA Law School
Karla Torres, Senior Human Rights Counsel, Center for Reproductive Rights
Lisa Tucker, Professor of Law, Drexel Law School

Moderators
Bennett Capers, Professor of Law, Fordham Law
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham Law
Julie Suk, Professor of Law, Fordham Law
Anne Williams-Isom, Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service